Posts Tagged ‘Fritz’

You can keep your Spec Ops: The Lines and Far Cry 2s. When I want ruminations on the futility of violence and war, I turn to Cannon Fodder. Sensible Software’s top-down tactics game was full of silly songs and cute sprites, but every time you returned to its menu screen you’d see white crosses representing your lost soldiers spreading across the hillside beyond your recruitment centre.

Are tiny sprite men the best way to explore the realities of war? Fritz, an RPG set during World War One, hopes so. It’s up on Kickstarter now, and the pitch video and more detail await below.

> Sorry, I had caps lock on. I've been trying to contact you for a fortnight, but a sinister threat has kept us apart. These "bank holiday Mondays" can only be the work of the Indie Cabal, hoping to keep their ranks closed by preventing the dissemination of hot, new GIFs and links to in-development games. But they can't stop our work. Come, dive quickly below. This message is beyond their reach, but not for long.